Chapter 293

Those who understand the times are outstanding.

The "Scholar" Silvano Latore is very understanding of the times.

He is exactly such an outstanding person; there is no doubt about this.

The Saint's inheritance, which so many people flock to, is not a good thing in Silvano's eyes, but a huge trouble.

Thus, he intends to use his ultimate move once again: avoid getting into any trouble at all and slip away immediately.

"You..."

Wizard Wina looked at Silvano's calm face and said with a complicated tone, "You aren't going to run away again, are you?"

"Yes."

Facing Wina's questioning, Silvano did not evade, nodded frankly, and even extended an invitation, "Do you want to come along? I suggest you do."

"Then... what about the mission?"

Wizard Wina asked this question for the second time.

Because they had messed things up twice in a row before, Wina and Silvano had both hit rock bottom in their respective organizations.

Not to mention that their benefits had been cut significantly, they were actually sent to execute such a thorny mission as snatching the Saint's inheritance.

Although it was foreseeable that this mission would not be easy to complete, but...

Wizard Wina really did not want to mess things up again this time, causing her rating within the organization to continue to drop and her benefits to continue to be cut.

Therefore, Wina was very unwilling to withdraw without even seeing the shadow of the Shadow City otherworld reclamation team.

At least try it.

Silvano smiled and asked back, "Is the mission more important, or is your life more important?"

In Silvano's intuition and analysis, continuing to intervene in the snatching of this Saint's inheritance was highly likely to encounter some accidents beyond his ability.

Regardless of whether he could snatch the Saint's inheritance or not, it was the same.

Silvano, who valued his own life extremely highly and wanted to place one perfect wizard specimen after another that fit his philosophy into the collection room he had opened, made up his mind to stand by and watch.

Out of a tiny bit of team friendship, as well as some research value that Wina still possessed, Silvano waited patiently for a while.

He gave a little time for Wina to think carefully about whether to withdraw with him.

Wina did not speak to reply for a long time, remaining silent and appearing very hesitant.

Seeing this, Silvano did not persuade her again, nor did he wait any longer.

Good words cannot persuade a ghost that is destined to die.

Put away the urge to help others and respect the fate of others.

Since that is the case, then let each be well.

"I hope we can meet again."

After saying goodbye in a serious tone, Silvano immediately disconnected the communication with the main ship where Wizard Wina was located.

Time waits for no one, and the longer it drags on, the more likely variables will occur. Silvano decisively ordered: "Retreat a sufficient distance to ensure that even if a high-intensity battle occurs, it will not affect us."

"Understood."

The Warship Spirit accepted the order and executed it immediately.

The wizards who followed Silvano on the mission were used to this.

Among them, some had been in contact with Silvano, while others were complete strangers.

However, after learning that Silvano was serving as the captain of this mission, they were all mentally prepared to abandon the mission halfway.

In terms of abandoning missions halfway, Silvano had already been listed as a repeat offender who refused to mend his ways.

The scene that fell into Lin Ke's eyes was that the White Tower Alliance warship, which had already anchored, started up again and retreated further away.

"Was I discovered?"

Shock, doubt, confusion, suspicion—various emotions surged into his heart, and the expression on Lin Ke's face hidden under the faceplate became solemn.

Lin Ke's life-bound spell "Battle Armor" had been constantly merging, expanding, and optimizing, never stopping its pace.

Especially after coming to the Academy Headquarters for further studies.

Here, various data and literature were extremely rich, and as long as there were enough Magic Stones and "Academic Credits," various witchcraft models were readily available.

The fusion, expansion, and optimization of the life-bound spell "Battle Armor" proceeded very smoothly.

It was no longer limited to battle armor-type witchcraft, and even no longer limited to the witchcraft of elemental wizards.

Attack-type, defense-type, detection-type, concealment-type, assault-type, evasion-type; True Spirit Wizard witchcraft, Intellectual Machine Wizard witchcraft, and even Body Refining Wizard witchcraft.

As long as it was suitable and met Lin Ke's needs, regardless of whether it was compatible or not, he would fuse it in first.

After the fusion was completed, he would continuously perform fine-tuning.

If it really didn't work, he would throw it aside.

Anyway, it didn't cost much resources.

Therefore, many battle armor modes suitable for different scenarios were developed.

The battle armor mode Lin Ke was wearing at the moment was a brand-new version that had absorbed the lesson from the last time he raided the main ship of the Flame and Metal Trading Company fleet—when he was just summoned over by Flandre and discovered by the warship's reconnaissance system—and focused on strengthening concealment and assault capabilities.

While testing the upper limit of Flandre's concealment and lurking ability, Lin Ke took the opportunity to test the concealment and assault capabilities of the brand-new version of the battle armor he named "Solo Reflection."

In terms of assault capability, the "Solo Reflection" battle armor was superior to Flandre.

In terms of concealment capability, the "Solo Reflection" battle armor was on par with Flandre.

As Flandre's master, Lin Ke barely managed to save his face and did not lose face.

Now, the White Tower Alliance team warship retreated again for no reason, making Lin Ke wonder for the first time whether he had been discovered.

The next second, Lin Ke denied this suspicion.

There was no reason for a warship produced by Riverside Academy to lose to a warship of the same level from the White Tower Alliance in terms of reconnaissance capability.

Otherwise, would Riverside Academy have the nerve to claim that it was the number one top organization in the Michelle District?

This was a reputation and status earned through battle after battle in the heavens.

And in the battles of the heavens, the importance of interstellar warships was self-evident.

"Silvano Latore?"

Immediately, a name appeared in Lin Ke's heart.

He suspected that the commander of this White Tower Alliance warship was the "Scholar" who once made him feel disgusted.

After all, the style of action of retreating again and again when seeing that the situation was not good was exactly the same.

"Why is it those two again? Are there no people left in the Flame and Metal Trading Company and the White Tower Alliance?"

After pondering for a while and basically confirming his guess, another doubt surged into Lin Ke's heart, leaving him puzzled.

Judging from the last competition, the status of Wizard Wina and the "Scholar" Silvano in their respective organizations, even if not comparable to Sandra, would not be too far behind.

For this mission to snatch the Saint's inheritance, Riverside Academy had no intention of sending Sandra at all.

Why would the Flame and Metal Trading Company and the White Tower Alliance send Wizard Wina and Silvano Latore?

Was there any special arrangement, or was there some far-reaching intention?

Lin Ke thought for a while, but lacking information, he really couldn't think of any clues.

Suppressing his somewhat mixed thoughts, Lin Ke decided to take a risk and get closer to investigate.

After careful consideration, Lin Ke chased after the White Tower Alliance warship whose commander was suspected to be the "Scholar" Silvano Latore.

Flame and Metal Trading Company team warship, cockpit.

Wizard Wina looked at the White Tower Alliance warship on the huge main screen that had decisively retreated after disconnecting the communication, her mood and expression extremely complicated.

The team members under her command were also glancing at Wina from the corners of their eyes, waiting for her decision.

Sensing the 11 gazes with different emotions, Wizard Wina's mind churned, and for a moment she found it difficult to make up her mind and make a choice.

She and Silvano had partnered and acted together more than once or twice.

Based on past cooperation experience, Wizard Wina actually trusted Silvano's analysis and judgment of the situation, as well as his super-high IQ, very much.

Going on missions with Silvano, the gains might be many or few, but the losses would definitely be kept to a minimum.

In terms of sense of crisis, among the peer wizards Wina had seen, except for one Lin Ke Grande, no one could be stronger than Silvano.

This time, even though Wizard Wina was unwilling, she was still more inclined to follow Silvano's footsteps and withdraw first.

However, it didn't matter if she was alone, but the other team members were different.

This team was not a team she had carefully built, but one put together temporarily.

If she couldn't come up with a solid reason to ask the team members to abandon this mission and let their resumes be ruined, it would be completely unjustifiable.

Relying solely on Silvano Latore's intuition, analysis, and judgment as a reason was simply untenable.

The other team members were not like Wizard Wina, who understood Silvano's abilities and capabilities.

There was simply no basis for unconditional trust in Silvano.

Wizard Wina hesitated, Wizard Wina was irritable, Wizard Wina was silent.

Therefore, the Flame and Metal Trading Company team warship remained in place, not moving.

Time passed bit by bit.

Lin Ke circled the White Tower Alliance warship, which had stopped again, from a distance, but did not find anything special in the nearby star field.

Except that it was extremely suitable for warships to enter the jump mode or curvature mode.

In other words, it was extremely suitable for retreating.

"It really is Silvano."

Having thoroughly confirmed his guess, Lin Ke did not continue to stay and monitor, but turned around and returned.

Since the commander of this White Tower Alliance warship was Silvano, there was no threat.

Based on the analysis of data collected from various channels specifically after the last competition ended, Lin Ke judged that Silvano was a person who cherished his life and was very cautious.

As long as the situation allowed, Silvano never took risks and would retreat as soon as he said so.

This time, regardless of whether Silvano was wary of the Michelle Great Sage Tower team or didn't want to get involved in trouble like the Saint's inheritance, it was basically not surprising.

Thus, the obstacles for Lin Ke to complete the Academy mission were now reduced to only three.

First was the warship of the Michelle Great Sage Tower, second was the warship of the Flame and Metal Trading Company, and finally, whether the Shadow City otherworld reclamation team was willing to cooperate.

"Take it slow, solve them one by one."

After nearly half an hour, Lin Ke returned to the meteorite belt.

He did not immediately summon the 5 team members of the second group, but asked in his heart: "Flandre, how is the situation? Did you find any abnormalities?"

Soon, Flandre's sweet voice sounded: "Master, they are setting traps."

"What traps?"

"They have scattered many of the 'Invisible Interstellar Mines' that you were trying to refine some time ago."

"Hmm... are there any more?"

"There are. Flandre counted, there are 10 wizards in total who came out of the warship, and I don't know where they hid."

"What's going on? You can discover them coming out of the warship, but you can't find their whereabouts?"

"Flandre doesn't know either. Master, do you know why this is?"

As the voice fell, Flandre shared the previous memory with Lin Ke.

After watching the scene in Flandre's memory where the 10 wizards of the Michelle Great Sage Tower left the warship and then disappeared, Lin Ke indicated that he could not figure out the reason for a while either.

As the largest force that had stood in the Michelle District for thousands of years, the Michelle Great Sage Tower was not down and out at all; it was in its prime.

It was very reasonable for wizards from the Michelle Great Sage Tower to have a few tricks up their sleeves.

It was not Flandre's fault that she couldn't find the whereabouts of these 10 wizards.

However, judging from the two measures of the Michelle Great Sage Tower team, their act of blatantly blocking the warship on the only path for the Shadow City otherworld reclamation team to return seemed to be a feint?

The Michelle Great Sage Tower team did not think about really going head-on and sniping the Shadow City otherworld reclamation team.

Instead, they used the warship to force the Shadow City otherworld reclamation team to stop, preventing the other party from fleeing regardless of everything.

Then conduct a small-scale melee?

Several guesses emerged one by one, and were suppressed by Lin Ke one by one.

Still the same saying, they fight their way, I fight mine.

Lin Ke would not easily change his plan because of some changes.

He did not mess up his own pace, but chose to continue observing.

There was still more than a day left until the estimated time for the Shadow City otherworld reclamation team to arrive in this star field.

Time was very sufficient.

Perhaps something else would happen during this period, who knows.

After thinking for a while, Lin Ke asked: "Flandre, do you think there are any places that can be utilized to incite the two teams of the Michelle Great Sage Tower and the Flame and Metal Trading Company to fight each other?"

"Master, you ask Flandre, who should Flandre ask? Cornelia?"

Flandre's disgusted tone made Lin Ke imagine her pouting and rolling her eyes.

Alright, Lin Ke found that he had asked the wrong person.

Because of this, he completely gave up the idea of causing trouble and waited quietly for the arrival of the Shadow City otherworld reclamation team.

Up to now, all of Lin Ke's operations, on the surface, were going all out to complete the mission.

In the void.

Fletcher Domingo felt that he had been tricked by Ragnar Walters.

The two Level 5 Sages sent by the Flame and Metal Trading Company and the White Tower Alliance joined forces to fight the enemy, but they couldn't withstand Ragnar's fierce attack for less than half an hour.

Now, the two Level 5 Sages were inside the Void Domain, being crushed by Ragnar and running around everywhere.

Let alone fulfilling their duties and secretly protecting the teams of their respective organizations to snatch the Saint's inheritance.

The two of them could barely even protect themselves.

Fletcher Domingo could see that Ragnar was really going for the kill earlier!

Every witchcraft spell cast had great power.

And every move was aimed at the vital points of the two Level 5 Sages.

Putting on a posture of being determined to kill them.

The Michelle Great Sage Tower's determination to get the Saint's inheritance was evident.

"Miscalculation!"

With a sigh, Fletcher Domingo had no intention of breaking his promise and intervening in the battle.

Even though he clearly knew that from the perspective of the Academy's interests, he should decisively unite with the two Level 5 Sages to resist Ragnar at this moment.

However, a promise is a promise and cannot be broken.

After another half an hour, the two Level 5 Sages finally could no longer flee and were forced into a desperate situation where they had to face Ragnar's attack head-on.

At this critical moment, the two Sages, who had also fought bloody battles on the front line of the God World many years ago, finally erupted with bloodiness and strength matching their levels.

The two joined forces and actually managed to parry Ragnar Walters' attack.

It seemed that the turning point of this battle had arrived and was about to enter a stage of strategic stalemate.

"They are doomed to lose."

Fletcher Domingo, who was watching the whole process, made such a judgment on the two Sages who joined forces.

Whether it is ordinary humans or transcendent wizards, they are often like springs.

When compressed to the extreme, they will rebound from the bottom and erupt with amazing strength.

However, this kind of eruption is overdrawn and not lasting.

Just like now, as long as Ragnar Walters withstands the joint eruption of the two Sages, after this short-lived eruption stage passes, he can easily take down the exhausted two Sages.

Halfway through the fight, the two Level 5 Sages, who were not fools after all, reacted in time.

The two covered for each other with great tacit understanding, both reducing the intensity of their eruption, trying to persist for a little longer.

When Ragnar Walters didn't know how to approach their hiding place and launch a surprise attack, the two Level 5 Sages had already sent requests for help to their respective organizations.

As long as they persisted until the support arrived, everything would not be a problem.

Fletcher Domingo saw the plan of the two Level 5 Sages and also wondered why Ragnar didn't take the opportunity to increase the intensity of the attack and take down the two as soon as possible, but chose to continue consuming them.

A moment later, a flash of inspiration, Fletcher Domingo discovered that his train of thought had actually been led astray by Ragnar.

Who stipulated that the Michelle Great Sage Tower's participation this time was only to snatch the Saint's inheritance?

Everything was just Ragnar's hint and Fletcher's own guess.

Fletcher then remembered Lisandra's reminder.

Only then did Fletcher understand.

Lisandra was reminding him to control his emotions and not fight to the death as soon as he got hot-headed.

Instead of letting Fletcher ensure that the attack intensity of the team snatching the Saint's inheritance did not exceed the limit and cause casualties.

Then, why should Fletcher control his emotions?

Obviously, in the judgment of Lisandra, or rather Forrest, a Sage-level melee might break out, dragging Fletcher into it.

If it were just a normal battle between Level 5 Sages sent by various organizations, it certainly wouldn't be called a melee.

Unless the Michelle Great Sage Tower wanted to show its fangs this time, severely beat the several top wizard organizations that were becoming increasingly disobedient, and deliberately expanded the scale of the battle.

Then, through some means, Fletcher Domingo's hands would be stained with the blood of the other top wizard organizations.

Or the hands of the Sages of other top wizard organizations would be stained with Fletcher Domingo's blood.

In this way, to avoid the situation where the several top wizard organizations put aside their prejudices and unite to resist the Michelle Great Sage Tower.

"Attacking reinforcements?"

Fletcher muttered to himself, "And preparing to fight me too?"

Before the voice fell, Fletcher entered the combat state directly.

While continuing to watch the battle, he was on guard against the emergence of a big melee that might drag him into it.

As for asking the Academy for help, Fletcher indicated that it hadn't reached that level yet.

Let's see, let's see.

If it really doesn't work, just slip away.

What's the point of fighting a civil war? If you want to fight, go fight in the God World.

"Reacted? It's too late!"

Ragnar Walters suppressed the joint resistance of the two Level 5 Sages and still had the leisure to observe Fletcher Domingo's movements.

Seeing that Fletcher finally switched from the spectator mode to the combat state, a little guilt arose in Ragnar's heart.

Even from the perspective of rhetoric, when Ragnar made an agreement with Fletcher earlier, he did not promise that he would not drag Fletcher into the battle.

However, Ragnar ultimately utilized the little friendship they had from fighting side by side in the past and possibly continuing to fight side by side in the future.

For Ragnar Walters, who was used to fighting on the front line and not dogfighting in the rear, he didn't feel very comfortable in his heart.

"Damn it, don't come to me for this kind of thing next time."

Ragnar gritted his teeth, and the intensity of his attack increased unconsciously.

The two Level 5 Sages, who thought they could hold on, suddenly felt the pressure increase sharply.

One of them even made a low-level mistake, causing a small gap in the defense line of the two.

Strike while the iron is hot.

How could Ragnar Walters let go of this fleeting fighter? 5th-ring attack witchcraft spells containing part of the rule power smashed toward the two Level 5 Sages one after another.

Not giving them a chance to breathe at all, gradually expanding the gap in the defense line.

Judging from the sharply increased attack intensity of Ragnar, it wouldn't be long before this gap would be burst open.

And then collapse the entire defense line.

At that time, Ragnar could completely drive straight in, break them one by one, and calmly take down the two Level 5 Sages.

Realizing that their situation was not good.

The two Level 5 Sages gritted their teeth to resist while desperately continuing to ask for help from their respective organizations.

Damn it!

They really couldn't understand, what medicine did the Michelle Great Sage Tower take wrong?

It would be fine if they just participated in the competition for profit.

The means were actually so violent.

Actually not hesitating to completely force the Flame and Metal Trading Company and the White Tower Alliance, two organizations that were usually considered tame, to rebel, just to promote their prestige!

Damn it.

Why were they the unlucky ones chosen to establish prestige?

Somewhere unknown in the starry sky.

Dean Forrest and Headmaster Leopold hid their figures, watching the great battle happening in the Void Domain.

And the respective actions of the teams sent by several organizations to snatch the Saint's inheritance.

"Anxious."

Dean Forrest spoke suddenly.

"What's anxious?"

Headmaster Leopold asked in confusion, "The Michelle Great Sage Tower has indeed been forced into anxiety by you!"

"No, I'm not talking about the Michelle Great Sage Tower."

Dean Forrest shook his head.

"Then who are you talking about?"

Headmaster Leopold became even more puzzled.

Dean Forrest's gaze fell on Lin Ke, who was lurking in the meteorite belt.

Then he moved away, looking at the "Lark" class interstellar warship that went to intercept the Shadow City otherworld reclamation team, trying to reach cooperation.

He happened to see the scene where the "Lark" class interstellar warship and the warship carrying the Shadow City otherworld reclamation team unfortunately brushed past each other.

"Lin Ke Grande is a bit anxious."

Dean Forrest sighed softly, "He didn't need to retreat so early. It's just a Saint school inheritance, what's there to be afraid of? If you snatch it, you snatch it; there's no need to operate like this."

"Hah!"

Headmaster Leopold glared at Dean Forrest gloomily, "So you don't even put the Michelle Great Sage Tower in your eyes anymore, and are wholeheartedly focused on the super genius of your own organization."

Dean Forrest nodded and said as a matter of course:

"Lin Ke Grande has the posture of a Saint, which is more important than the Michelle Great Sage Tower."

Hearing this, Headmaster Leopold was shocked in his heart.

Are you kidding me?

(End of chapter)